I am he but I can never be Him™ ✝️ musician, autismo, bi chaos person, peacenik. engage w/ ≠ endorse 🏴
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lmao. I am going crazyyyy trying to figure out what song this is. SoundHound doesn't know it. Shazam doesn't know it. Querying ACRCloud does nothing.
send help
vocaroo.com/1hLlEwgNSQfA
Michael 🎹🎙️ retweeted
Me: I need to cancel my AT&T service.
AT&T: May I ask why?
Me: I’m moving.
AT&T: Where are you moving to?
Me: Somewhere else. Why do you need to know?
AT&T: It’s required for documentation purposes. It’s part of our cancellation process.
Me: Well, it’s not part of MY process. I’m asking you to cancel my service, not help me move.
AT&T: I’ll need your new address to proceed.
Me: You know what? Forget I said I was moving. I’m not moving anywhere. I simply want to cancel my service.
AT&T: Can you provide a reason for cancellation?
Me: Absolutely. Please document that AT&T is nosy, intrusive, unnecessarily complicated, and apparently believes canceling a service requires surrendering my future whereabouts.
AT&T: …
Me: …
AT&T: Okay, your service will be cancelled.
Me: So you CAN cancel it without knowing where I’m going?
AT&T: …
WHY DO COMPANIES MAKE IT SO DIFFICULT TO STOP PAYING THEM? 😭
Sometimes you just want to cancel a service without being interrogated like you’re applying for witness protection.
I don’t owe a company my life story just because I no longer want to be its customer. 😂
Michael 🎹🎙️ retweeted
Lots of people write the worst things i have ever read and put them on places like Wattpad.
You should do that.
Helps practice and you get better at writing.
Michael 🎹🎙️ retweeted
Most people still do not get that Covid is airborne, and I watched a nurse figure it out mid wipe this morning.
I am at my weekly GLP 1 shot appointment before work. It’s 8am, and I am still trying to be awake and so is everyone behind the front desk.
The nurse comes to get me and she is already flustered. Shoulders up to her ears, sighing loud enough for the whole waiting room to hear, holding that big canister of Lysol wipes like a weapon.
I walk into the exam room and there is this little machine on the counter glowing bright pink, puffing out this thick foggy mist that smells like fake strawberries. Like a tiny rave humidifier. As if scented fog is going to make the whole room germ free. I have no idea what that thing is supposed to do, but it is clearly part of the plan. It was like Bath and Body Works got put in charge of infection control and decided strawberry scent was the answer.
She does not even say good morning. She just starts wiping. Hard circles on the exam chair and arm rests. Then the little side table. The door handle. And the back of the door handle.
I ask her what happened.
"I am SO tired of these people coming up in here sick!!! Why can't people just stay home when they sick?! Ugh and of course it was all that gunky nasty upper respiratory stuff. Coughing and sniffling up in my face!"
And she keeps wiping, wiping, wiping, while that pink machine keeps puffing that strawberry fog behind her like it is doing something.
It just came out. I said, "It is airborne though."
She freezes. Hand mid air over the chair, wipe dripping.
She looks at me. Looks at the wipe. Eyes locked still at the handle she just bleached.
"Yeah," she says. "Yeah, it is."
You could see it land. That split second where her face went from annoyed to OH S*IT. That look of wait, WHAT am I actually doing right now? That WOW, this sucks.
Because that is the part most people never digested.
They spent years thinking it lives on tables and chairs and doorknobs, so if they just wipe hard and spray enough pretty smelling fog they will be safe. But it does not live on the table. It does not disappear in that pink mist. It lives in the air they just shared in that tiny room with no open window or HEPAS.
Until they get that Covid is airborne, and not a surface thing, or a washing hands thing, and not a bad smell you can cover up with strawberry fog, but is an invisible shared air thing, they are going to keep scrubbing surfaces while breathing each others uncleaned air.
Michael 🎹🎙️ retweeted
During COVlD waves, it becomes more difficult for people to suppress the deep health anxiety they experience by taking zero precautions against a virus that continues to cause significant morbidity and excess mortality.
Pretending adaptive safety responses are OCD or piling on establishments that use precautions are often just manifestations of psychological defense mechanisms. Witnessing so much illness and seeing rational people masking makes their health anxiety bubble up to the surface. The defenses help push that back down to a less conscious level so they can carry on with the status quo. Of course, such individuals are victims too. Nobody would rationally choose that status quo, but it preserves, at least for the near term, entrenched political and financial interests.
It's quite troubling to me seeing so many examples of this. It reminds be of reading old psychoanalytic texts as a teen. It was almost unfathomable to me to imagine, say a war veteran, experiencing motor paralysis in their arm as a PTSD reaction to having shot people during WWI. In a lot of these old texts, there was just no societal understanding of psychology at all, so every extreme negative feeling was taboo and largely repressed. It illustrates the power of COVlD that so many people have been forced to revert to a state of psychological awareness witnessed a century ago.
Michael 🎹🎙️ retweeted
Antimaskers are like: You check your mirrors EVERY time before switching lanes? That's classic moral OCD babe. You slow down in school zones? Omg just run kids over if they don't see you coming! People are going to die. That's just a fact of the world. You have to live your life.
I would give my right hand (it's my best keyboard-playing hand and therefore of more consequence than my otherwise dominant left hand) to be a dad and be able to read to my children
meanwhile the people who sacrifice humanity on the altar of technological progress are doing this
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Michael 🎹🎙️ retweeted
Even as a non-religious person, I personally cringe at the hubris required to personally tell the Pope that you think your company has created an ensouled being, thus rendering Anthropic equivalent to God the creator. Further, that you did it for profit and it is now enslaved.
Michael 🎹🎙️ retweeted
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
Michael 🎹🎙️ retweeted
Long Covid is a women’s issue: women are disproportionately affected.
A Black issue: Black communities bear a disproportionate burden of COVID and Long Covid.
A Latino issue: Latino people are disproportionately affected by Long Covid, reflecting disparities in exposure, work, and healthcare.
An Indigenous issue: Indigenous communities have suffered disproportionate infection, illness, and long-term consequences.
A Trans issue: emerging evidence suggests Trans people are disproportionately affected by Long Covid.
A children’s issue: Long Covid is one of the most consequential new chronic illnesses affecting children.
A disability issue: it is disabling millions in a society where disability itself creates barriers to income, housing, healthcare, and participation.
A class issue: your job, housing, income, and ability to afford protection all shape your risk of infection - and your ability to survive chronic illness.
A labor issue: workers are repeatedly exposed, denied adequate sick leave, and expected to work through infection and disability.
A carceral issue: incarcerated people face repeated exposure with little control over their environment or access to prevention and care.
A housing issue: crowded housing increases transmission, while illness and lost income increase housing insecurity.
An education issue: chronic illness means missed school, lost educational opportunities, and sick teachers, students, and caregivers.
An economic issue: Long Covid reduces employment and earnings while shifting the enormous costs of chronic illness onto individuals and families.
A healthcare issue: access to diagnosis, specialists, treatment, insurance, and even being believed is profoundly unequal.
Long Covid follows the fault lines society already created and makes them deeper.
It’s not about “identity politics.” It’s about the social determinants of health.
Michael 🎹🎙️ retweeted
If every person who doesn’t wear a mask but weighed in on the mask required lesbian bar emailed their favorite bar and/or live music venue and asked them to invest in air purifiers or an upgraded HVAC system, we could really make some progress in clean indoor air
Michael 🎹🎙️ retweeted
Final thought on the Long COVID / lesbian masking noise.
As the dust settles and broader interest wanes, everyone with LC still has LC - we don’t get to move onto something else.
After the waves of sweeping ableist statements and funny jibes are done, millions of people around the world have had their lives changed irreparably.
Many are unable to work, many have had to let go of relationships, aspirations and dreams. Many are confined to bed and have been for years.
This happened to people all of a sudden over the past 6 years and it just feels like everyone else will say or do anything to avoid showing some solidarity or making sure this doesn’t happen again.
Michael 🎹🎙️ retweeted
You DO realise that the beauty of the cello suites and the goldberg variations ISN’T strictly in the mathematics of it? It’s in THE DECISIONS MADE BY THE INNER EAR OF THE COMPOSER that reflected his own inner judgement of what he was moved by???????
We actually went deeper on the technical side of how it handles voice-leading here: xitter.gq/AGTPinsights/status/20…
Michael 🎹🎙️ retweeted
I’ll go further: those in power don’t want you having passions or hobbies, which is why they seek to automate whatever brings joy. They want you to be a miserable, conformist sack of meat. You need to develop skills. You need to sharpen your brain. You need to read & create.
Michael 🎹🎙️ retweeted
I'm no comms specialist, but "we're going to eliminate your jobs and you're going to like it" may have been the wrong pitch
"Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It’s Almost Hard to Believe"
"They're even more unpopular than data centers"
futurism.com/artificial-inte…
This is no 12-million view "Crappytown" on the talkbox, but I figure it might as well go here too.
As an exercise in vintage orchestration, I mocked up Gershwin and Gershwin's "Embraceable You" (1930, public domain as of 1 January 2026) with 100% Mellotron / Chamberlin sounds.
